Melrose High School

Barbara Bolton “Barbe”

Barbara Bolton (“Barbe”), class of 1939, Melrose High School (Melrose, Massachusetts). The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 24.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 16 more named Bolton

Full name: Barbara Bolton
Known as: Barbe
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Barbe Bolton; Barb Bolton; Bolton, Barbara.

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Same surname 10
Classmates 204

In context

205 people from the Melrose High School class of 1939 appear on this site, and Bolton puts Barbara 19th among them. In the scan, Barbara appears on page 24, right at the start of the run of 205 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 201). 56 people named Barbara turn up in 13 Melrose High School classes on this site, 1925 to 1942; 1942 has the most with 11. A college or university was the plan of 9 of 20 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1939 (45%), compared with 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	A. Alita Boecker, Horace H. Bolton, Charles Botto
Same first name	Barbara: 5 other people in the class
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What the page does not say. Grammar school and clubs or activities are missing. The rest of the Melrose High School class of 1939 has them often (grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to Barbara. The scan is the authority.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 24. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1939melr).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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